react native CI/CD - versioning automation increment whenever app release

bitbucket-pipelines.yml

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image: node:10.16.0

definitions:
  after-script: &merge-to-staging-with-versionup
    - apt-get update -y
    - apt-get install -y git
    - git fetch --unshallow
    - git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
    - git fetch origin
    - git checkout --track origin/staging
    - git merge $BITBUCKET_BRANCH -m "Automated Merge by pipelines branch '$BITBUCKET_BRANCH' into 'staging' [SKIP CI]"
    - npm version patch
    - npm run react-native-version
    - git status
    - git push origin
    - git push origin --tags

pipelines:
  branches:
    master:
      - step:
          name: npm version and app-version increment
          caches:
            - node
          script:
            - npm install
          after-script: *merge-to-staging-with-versionup

package.json

  "scripts": {
    "android": "react-native run-android",
    "ios": "react-native run-ios",
    "pod": "cd ios && pod install --repo-update && cd ..",
    "postuninstall": "npm run pod",
    "prepare": "npm run pod",
    "start": "react-native start",
    "test": "jest",
    "lint": "eslint . --ext .js,.jsx,.ts,.tsx",
    "lint-fix": "npm run lint -- --fix",
    "react-native-version": "react-native-version"
  }

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-version

special thanks to @stovmascript

Can you also show your "dependencies" and "devDependencies" in package.json?

@stovmascript I think that's not necessary. let me know why you need that. That's not hard to share of that.